1. FOIA - Verb
2. FOIA - Proper noun
FOIA
(law) Acronym of Freedom of Information Act.
FOIA (third-person singular simple present FOIAs, present participle FOIAing, simple past and past participle FOIAed)
(law) To request or obtain records using the Freedom of Information Act
There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection. Alberto Gonzales
A cache of some 20,000 documents survived Helms' purge, as they had been incorrectly stored in a financial records building and were discovered following a FOIA request in 1977. Source: Internet
Documents released under the FOIA show that the FBI tracked the late David Halberstam —a Pulitzer Prize -winning journalist and author—for more than two decades. Source: Internet
According to Leopold, the worst agencies to deal with in terms of FOIA requests are the usual suspects: the FBI, the DOJ and the US Southern Command. Source: Internet
One researcher, Shreyas Gandlur, turned up an email from Ring to the Joliet City Police Department, asking them to redact the names and email addresses of any Ring employees that may show up in emails released through FOIA. Source: Internet
Also, Reines's insistence on secrecy about the "blackmail" was a reckless bet against the very industry he dealt with each day; via the FOIA process, journalism outed his part in rancid sausage-making. Source: Internet